rest-houses

These massive undertakings, which including building numerous schools, hospitals, rest-houses, water reservoirs, and road construction, may have been undertake rather hastily, often with sloppy workmanship.

Cambodia: Nationalism, Patriotism, Racism, and Fanaticism 2008

There could be no rest-houses for revolt, no dividend of joy paid out.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

By nightfall he would reach the highest of the pilgrim rest-houses; and by the following day he would have returned to the world of men.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

In Japan some monks, in a similar philanthropic spirit, constructed rest-houses and hos - pitals, roads, ponds, bridges, and harbors.

BUDDHISM HAJIME NAKAMURA 1968

Dak or dawk bungalows (from _dak_ or _dawk_, a post, a relay of men for carrying the mails, &c.) are the government rest-houses established at intervals for the use of travellers on the high roads of India.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

At this time the grass-plots were developed to high order, and there were groves, rest-houses, bowers, and _theatres de verdure_ at each turning.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

The Herbert and the Netley Hospitals were the first embodiment of the nation's sympathy expressed in terms of official administration -- palaces of healing, which have been rest-houses for multitudes of sick and wounded men pending their return to duty, their discharge on pension, or their passing to an early grave.

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

If the palankin-bearers were very good, they shuffled along at the rate of about three miles an hour, and if there were no delays, forty or forty-five miles could be accomplished before it became necessary to seek shelter from the sun in one of the dâk-bungalows, or rest-houses, erected by Government at convenient intervals along all the principal routes.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

And in the largest ones, such as Etaples, where there are 11,000 graves, eminent architects have designed other structures, which add dignity and grandeur to the cemeteries, in the form of wide terraces and vaulted buildings, which serve as record-houses or rest-houses where visitors go apart to meditate or pray.

The Great Remembrance 1929

This was to research the map for rest-houses and for fortunes that might be won after the ogre castle had been passed.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925